Garage Datacenter 7

This video shows shows the racking of our final sets of equipment. The servers purchased and showed in Garage Datacenter 6 has been racked up and the hard disks have been arranged and traded to maximize the amount if initial disk space we have keeping budget in mind

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• Datacenter
• Datacentre
• compaq
• Servers
• Development
• Networks
• Computers
• Startup

[beasy26062]

Looks like junk to me.. Why would you ever need a SQL database at home for?

[dellbucket]

@beasy26062 why do people have old cars that just sit there are rot after a few years before they fix it. Everyone has hobbies and likes to experiment with things. In this case i wanted to teach myself how to setup a network similar to what we have in many datacenters without having to pay for new servers. If i can do it with old servers i can do it with new + i wanted to set a network up as a proof of concept for something i was trying

[elcaroadb]

hi my friend

very good work

i wan't to know if you operate this hardware? if yes in whitch domaine? web? witch services you provide for your customers?

cheers.

[dellbucket]

@elcaroadb yeh i do, but its not for production, its for testing only, my production servers are running on the amazon cloud but in the same configuration as what i have my servers in at my garage. If i wanna make a networking change i try to see how it effects my app locally here and then if its all good i will do the same change on the amazon servers. Its actually easier on amazon cause its just point and click for hardware config :)

[SonAvitch]

Mondayitis lol!

[dellbucket]

@SonAvitch dont you hate it ! LOL

[TheStuartWallace]

Holy Shit ona Sandwitch O.O

[Twanhines]

@dellbucket WOOT! awesome deal man!

[zt14427]

@beasy26062 I use SQL for logging online activity by users and that way, if something gets messed up, I know who did it, and I know what to restore.

[vitalsfading]

@beasy26062 you must have never seen a everyday data center have you?

[idahofur]

scsi or sata or sas depends on the server. As I found out for my HP dl585 g1 server. I can do it. But it is costly. I have to purhcase the hot swap bay to replace the scsi bay. Then a card for sas. I would prefer the hp card. So it adds up. In the end since this is for now a play server I'm talking about. 4 73gb scsi drives are fine. I have looked for down the road upgrade and have a choice of some pci-x 64 bit cards. Fiber channel, scsi, or sas if I wanted generic external drive bay for sas.

[hulkhatepunybanner]

@idahofur Can the old servers take SATA drives instead of SCSI?

[hulkhatepunybanner]

It's good to recycle old boxes but aren't they limited in hard drive space and use large amounts of power? I've seen on craigslist old servers with 2 to 4 SCSI drives with 73Gb each. That's very little space for a storage server.

[idahofur]

Now that is nice. Yea it is old stuff. But who cares. It works and you can get older stuff cheap. Except for the stupid 80pin scsi sca drive. I got my hp dl585 g1 server and looked into getting the upgrade to sata used or 320gb sca drive. WOw what a cost. I think they was 320gb maybe 300gb. But I didn't care. So I picked up 4 80gb drives and perhaps in a year or so I can pickup some cheap fiber drives or something and some cards for it. TTFN....

[guitarzarmad]

@beasy26062 Also I I run multiple bots for games which require SQL db's in order to save player stats

[guitarzarmad]

@beasy26062 I run websites.

[jean2719]

pretty cool